(Added by Ordinance No. 161984; amended by Ordinance No. 176555, effective
July 1, 2002.) For public streets and private street tracts, the City Engineer
shall designate street prefixes, names, and numbers, keep records of such
designations and exercise such other powers as are necessary to carry out the
provisions of this Chapter.

(Amended by Ordinance No. 161984, effective July 1, 1989.) All streets in
that section of the City north of the Willamette River and west of the center
line of Williams Avenue shall be designated as North and the prefix "N" shall be
added to the street name. All streets in that section of the City north of the
center line of East Burnside Street and east of the center line of Williams
Avenue shall be designated as Northeast, and the prefix "NE" shall be added to
the street name, except Williams Avenue, which shall have the prefix "N" added
to the street name and except Burnside Street which shall have the prefix "E"
added to the street name. All streets in that section of the City south of the
center line of East Burnside Street and east of the Willamette River shall be
designated as Southeast and the prefix "SE" shall be added to the street name,
except Burnside Street which shall have the prefix "E" added to the street name.
All streets in that section north of the center line of Burnside Street and west
of the Willamette River shall be designated as Northwest, and the prefix "NW"
shall be added to the street name, except Burnside Street which shall have the
prefix "W" added to the street name. All streets in that section of the City
south of the center line of Burnside Street and west of the Willamette River
shall be designated as Southwest and the prefix "SW" shall be added to the
street name, except Burnside Street which shall have the prefix "W" added to the
street name.

A. All streets within the corporate limits of the City running in an
easterly and westerly direction shall hereafter be designated as "streets," and
all streets running in a northerly and southerly direction shall be designated
as "avenues." Streets lying between two consecutively numbered streets shall be
designated as "place" and shall take the lesser number of said two numbered
streets. The terms "drive," "court," "lane," "terrace" or "way" may be used to
designate winding or circuitous streets. Scenic, arterial or greenscape streets
may be designated as "boulevards" or "drives" in lieu of the term "streets" or
"avenues."